What if the crew sent to find humanity a second home walked on four legs? Dogs in Space, an animated series from 2021, answers that question with a shipful of genetically upgraded canines, a broad comic streak and episodes short enough for a single sitting.
What is Dogs in Space about?
Earth's prospects are dimming, and the scientists in charge of finding a replacement planet have made an unusual staffing decision: they have engineered dogs with heightened intelligence and sent them out into deep space to do the scouting. Each ship has its own crew of talking, thinking, bickering canines, and the series follows one of these teams as they hop between strange worlds, run into alien life, and try to complete a mission that could decide the future of everyone back home. The dogs, however, have their own priorities. Loyal to the humans who raised them, they treat the whole galaxy-spanning search as an elaborate game of fetch, and their deepest wish is simply to finish the job and get back to the owners they miss. That tension, between a mission of cosmic importance and a crew that mostly wants belly rubs, gives the show its comic engine, with action, adventure and science-fiction set pieces packed into every twenty-two-minute episode.
About the cast
The voice cast is led by Haley Joel Osment and includes Sarah Chalke, Kimiko Glenn, Chris Parnell, David López, William Jackson Harper and Debra Wilson. Jeremiah Cortez is credited as director of the series, a co-production between Canada and the United States.
Context & significance
Dogs in Space sits in the crowded, energetic corner of animated television aimed at families, where sci-fi adventure and jokes for grown-ups share the same frame. Its genre tags run long, covering action, adventure, animation, comedy, family, fantasy and science fiction, and that breadth reflects how the show operates: one episode may lean into a planet-of-the-week adventure, the next into character comedy aboard the ship. The premise draws on a familiar science-fiction idea, the search for a new home for humanity, and flips it by putting the least likely explorers in charge.
Watching Dogs in Space on Ktime
Dogs in Space streams on K-Time for logged-in account holders; reading this page costs nothing and needs no sign-in. K-Time's interface is built in Farsi for Persian speakers living abroad, so parents can browse the series alongside the rest of the catalogue in their own language and queue up episodes for the kids in a couple of taps.